QUITO.- police officers of Ecuador The leader of a criminal group was arrested this Friday accused of planning a outrage against fiscal general Diana Salazar, according to a recent complaint made by the official herself.
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Freddy Sarzosa, general director of police investigation, said in statements to the Teleamazonas channel that after the capture, the “links or relationships with the threats” against the prosecutor are being investigated.
He added that he was arrested for a kidnapping crime, when the agents found cash, three high-end vehicles, one of them armored, as well as ammunition.
Pico, 44, who is identified as the leader of the criminal gang Los Lobos in the capital, has 17 arrests and 30 judicial proceedings, for murder, drug trafficking, extortion and crime, among others.
Los Lobos is considered by authorities to be one of the largest organized crime groups in the country and has been linked to the Mexican Jalisco Nueva Generación drug cartel. They are responsible for the explosion of car bombs in Quito, in August 2023, and in other parts of the country, in addition to a series of crimes such as kidnappings, hitmen, extortion and robberies.
The Minister of Government, Mónica Palencia, also in ”.
Prosecutor Salazar denounced last Wednesday that Los Lobos and one of its members, Pico, are behind “several alerts and threats” against her integrity and that of her family. She said that “they have been identified as those who attempted the life of Fernando Villavicencio”, the presidential candidate murdered in August 2023 at the exit of a political event in the north of Quito.
The prosecutor’s complaint occurred in the middle of a hearing in the investigation of the largest leak of organized crime and drug trafficking in State institutions, called the “Metastasis” case. It also takes place amid an unprecedented rise in violence in the South American nation.
Given the threats to Salazar, President Daniel Noboa ordered to reinforce the security of the prosecutor and her family.
Source: With information from AP
